How quickly those in power forget - after WW1, WW2 and the Korean war we pushed training in basic military competencies for the average male member of the public, and also supported and paid in the form of ammo and service-spec rifles "skill-at-arms" activities to ensure that there was a significant pool of people to draw from in the event of a requirement for a general callup for military purposes.
That memory has gone, condemned to the sands of time and for a lot of the current crop of politicians and Police hierarchy completely out of their sphere of experience. Unfortunately for those that believe wholeheartedly in the bogus UN disarmament propaganda the current world events with many civil wars and even a main state invasion of a neighboring country really do make a mockery of that belief. The other contributing set of factors is the woeful state of our military and for that matter the general state of our civil defence and general emergency services capabilities. A general standard of training and capability among the public would come in handy wouldn't it!
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